Traditional Marxism - Advantages and disadvantages table in A Level and IB Sociology

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Created by: HayleyRoss
Created on: 16-04-15 10:48

Traditional Marxism

Advantages

Traditional Marxism offers a useful explanation of the relationship between crime and capitalist society.
It shows the links between law making and enforcement and the interests of the capitalist class.

Disadvantages

It largely ignores the relationship between crime and important non-class inequalities such as ethnicity and gender.
It is too deterministic and over-predicts the amount of crime in the working class.
Left realists argue that Marxism focuses largely on the crimes of the powerful and ignores intra-class crimes.

Evaluation

The traditional Marxist view has also influenced recent approaches to the study of the crimes of the powerful.

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